NixOS Wiki talk: About
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why is linking to the official nixos.org wiki being blocked by a hardcoded filter? This seems malicious at best. -- Qsu
- Ongoing issues such as defacement attempts, link spam, and mass content redirection have significantly increased the workload of the nixos.wiki admin team. A substantial part of our efforts is focused on mitigating “attacks” from individuals claiming to represent the “official wiki.”
- The block you referred to (and may have encountered) is one of the straightforward but effective measures implemented to ensure the wiki remains functional and valuable for its many daily users. This action is purely a practical necessity to maintain the quality and integrity of nixos.wiki.
- If you have any practical and constructive suggestions to improve the situation, feel free to reach out to us at admin-team@nixos.wiki. We welcome your input! --Fadenb (talk) 11:15, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
Ongoing issues such as defacement attempts, link spam, and mass content redirection have significantly increased the workload of the nixos.wiki admin team.
By preventing direct link and explanation to help disambiguate, you'll be perpetuating confusion, not preventing it as you'd like to. -- Qsu 11:53, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
If you have any practical and constructive suggestions to improve the situation
- Yes: on this about page (particularly your "why" section at the LEAST) call out the other options like you already were (with old history) but now updated with news about the latest new domain. If you don't acknowledge the newer and very real wiki that's a subdomain of nixos.org, then you're going to mislead people (intentional or not). This personally caused me quite a bit of confusion and I would have had zero suspicion if the page simply acknowledge the current ambiguity. -- Qsu 11:53, 5 January 2025 (UTC)
from individuals claiming to represent the “official wiki.”
- Are you claiming the wiki on the official domain is itself not official? If so, then just explain that out in your about page, but this silence in your about page is the problem I'm trying to raise (and was the edit I was trying to be constructive with). -- Qsu 11:53, 5 January 2025 (UTC)